roturière
\ʁɔ.ty.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“roturière” is uncommon French (frequency #77,887 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,887
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui, sous l’Ancien Régime, n’était ni aristocrate ni ecclésiastique et appartenait au tiers état.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roturiere · roturière · French
roturière · rank #77,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,887
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ronron
Nearest frequency peer: ronron (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « roturière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Romo
Romo
22,117 corpus weight
- ronchon
ronchon
22,116 corpus weight
- ronron
ronron
22,115 corpus weight
- roturière
roturière
22,114 corpus weight
- rouer
rouer
22,113 corpus weight
- rouleur
rouleur
22,112 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roturière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roturière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ty.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roturière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roturière is uncommon French at frequency #77,887 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.ty.ʁjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui, sous l’Ancien Régime, n’était ni aristocrate ni ecclésiastique et appartenait au tiers état.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for roturière, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is roturière, spelled R-O-T-U-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui, sous l’Ancien Régime, n’était ni aristocrate ni ecclésiastique et appartenait au tiers état.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roturière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque la constitution française reconnaissait un ordre de noblesse privilégiée, la femme noble qui épousait un roturier dérogeait à la noblesse et devenait roturière.
Quoique roturière, elle frayait avec la noblesse à laquelle elle s’était souvent alliée,
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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